David Cameron vs. Humanity

It sounds that after the Scottish NO vote, Mr. Cameron has too much self confidence.... unfortunately, IMHO, in the wrong place.

According to this article in the Guardian, the English prime minister vowed to "scrap the human rights act". If you have not or do not work in the human rights field, this, if you allow me to explain, is a huge slap to the humanity's achievement of uninamously approving a very basic document of 30 alinea on human rights.

As this article in the Guardian confirms, this move of Mr. Cameron undermines the rule of law and brings prejudice to principles that the United Nations has worked on empowering for more than 50 years!!!

Cameron’s pledge to scrap Human Rights Act angered civil rights groups who criticised the Prime minister’s plans for landmark legislation as shameful destruction of Winston Churchill’s legacy. Indeed, for many, tory wreckers out to destroy their own human rights. The Conservatives’ threat to scrap the Human Rights Act emphasises how extreme the party has become.

According to Tim Farron, Churchill ‘would leave Tories’ over pledge to scrap human rights act. Farron declared "Wartime premier would rejoin Liberal Democrats as Cameron ‘trashes’ his legacy..."

 

P.S. It looks like the site is stripping the links I enter. I tried to upload my post with the links as a 148kb pdf, but the site tells me my file is too big. Sorry guys.

 

Aren't they replacing it with the British Bill of Rights, which they are promising will still cover most of the same rights? You forgot to mention it in your post

 

You are right tdn, I should have mentioned that to make my article balanced. I stand corrected.

Nevertheless, EVEN IF they introduce a British bill, this is setting a precedent to humanity that even 50 years after signing a convention or declaration, you can still break the universality of the document and break off it by retracting! This is humungous!

 

The Human Rights Act only came into effect in 2000 in the UK.

 

But humanity has been working on this for the past 50 years!

 

Sorry I probably missed what you meant. When you said "even 50 years after signing a convention or declaration", which convention or declaration were you talking about? I thought you meant the Human Rights Act which had only been in affect since 2000. Which convention or declaration that was signed 50 years ago were you referring to?

 

I was referring to the HRA, but had in mind most other countries that signed 50 years ago. I should have better formulated my sentence. You are right.

 

Ah ok, no problems. FWIW, information on the British Bill of Rights hasn't really been released so it's hard to say if it is going to be better or worse for the protection of human rights. It's probably too early to say.

 

... Just imagine what the world would be like if every country followed the UK and had its own bill on human rights....

 

The most important aspect of any UN Act / Declaration or convention is its universality!